Abrasive implement.



Patented May 18, v1915.

James L. 5

A TTORNE Y 1. C. SMITH.

ABRASIVE IMPLEMENT.

APPLtcATloN FILED xuLY 2. 1913.

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JAMES C. SlVIT-I, SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.

ABRASIVE ILVIPLEIVIENT.

Application :tiled July 2, 1913. Serial No. 778,953.

T0 all 'whom it may concern Y Be itr known that l, JAMES C. SMITH, a

citizen of the United States, residing at San Francisco, in the county of San Francisco and State of California, have invented new and useful Improvements in Abrasive Implements, of which the following is a specication.

rlhe possibility of successful commercial introduction of many articles which consists wholly or in part of bars, sticks, or plates, and especially those formed of wood, often depends upon the magnitude of the original cost of production. ln manufacturing such articles the bars, stocks, or plates have to be first formed of the required size, and then to have their surfaces smoothed ,or finished. When several separate operations and the intermediate handling of the articles are required in the manufacturing, one for cutting kout the bar, plate or stick, and the others for smoothing or finishing its surfaces, the cost of production is often practically prohibitive.

It is the object of the present invention to provide means whereby the surfaces of the bars, sticks or plates can'be smoothed or iinished at the same time that the bar, stick or plate is cut out, thereby avoiding a double operation and the intermediate handling.

In the accompanying drawing, Figure 1 is a side view of my improved device; Fig. 2 Vis a cross section of a portion thereof on a greatly enlarged scale.

Referring tothe drawing, 1 indicates a circular saw of ordinary construction having a central hole 2 for attachment to a rotatable shaft. On each side of the saw there is secured a disk 3 of abrasive mateo of wood or other material is cut by such' Copies of this patent maybe obtained for ive` cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, v

a saw, the abrasive disks, entering the cut made by the teeth of the saw, and revolving rapidly in said cut, abrade the sides of said cut, so as tok leave them with smooth and finished surfaces. lt is thereby rendered no longer necessary to subject said surfaces to a separate operation of smoothing and finishing, thereby greatly reducing the cost of the bar, plate or stick, formed by the cuts.

lt is necessary that the set of the teeth should be such that their outermost portions should lie in the same plane as the outer surface of theabrasive disks. For, if the setof the teeth is not suiliciently great,then the abrasive disks have to enter a cut4 in the wood or other material narrower than the interval between the outer surfaces of said l disks, and consequently the sawV is soon brought to rest. v out, then the abrasive disks do Vnot come into contact with, or come into contact only with portions of, the surfaces to be abraded thereby. But I have found that, if the abrasive disks be of such thicknesses relatively to the set of the teeth of the saw that the outermost portions of the teeth are in thefsame planes as the outer surfaces of the disks, then the surfaces ofthe cut made by the saw are smooth and finished by the same operation as that of cutting.

. As an inferior form Vof the invention, the

saw teeth may be omitted, and the rotating Y V o I claim:-

The combination with a saw blade having If the teeth are set too far oppositely set peripheral teeth, of abrasive disks secured to the opposite sides of the saw blade, with their outer peripheries flush with the inner ends of thek teeth, and they outer sides vthereof disposed in the same plane as the outer points of said teeth.

In testimony whereof l have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JAMES C. SMITH.

Witnesses:

FRANCIS M. WRIGHT, D. B. RICHARDS.`

Washington, D. GJ 

